Bug 293482 – media-libs/mesa-7.5.2 moves /usr/lib64/libGL.la, emerges fail looking at old location

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Matt Savigear 2009-11-17 10:04:58 UTC]

mesa-7.5.2 creates /usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/lib/libGL.la however many ebuild still seem to rely on /usr/lib64/libGL.la and fail to complete.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Upgrade to media-libs/mesa-7.5.2
2. Attempt to emerge e.g. gimp

Actual Results:  
/usr/bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib64/libGL.la: No such file or directory
libtool: link: `/usr/lib64/libGL.la' is not a valid libtool archive

Expected Results:  
Package installs correctly.

Either some paths need to be fixed somewhere to enable libtool (and presumably the final applications) to find the new libGL.la, or mesa needs to include a link from /usr/lib64 to /usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/lib.

I have got my systems working again using
ln -s /usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/lib/libGL.la /usr/lib64/libGL.la

[Comment 1 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-11-17 11:50:38 UTC]

Mesa 7.5 ships libGL.la but we removed it from 7.6 and up. So we've modified eselect-opengl not to link libGL.la anymore (it was a gentoo-only hack).

So you'll need to fix broken .la files.

You can either use revdep-rebuild or lafilefixer for that.

Thanks

[Comment 2 Matt Savigear 2009-11-17 11:54:42 UTC]

Well, revdep-rebuild failed with the same error prior to my filing this bug. I was unaware of lafilefixer which I'm looking at now.

[Comment 3 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-11-17 12:08:05 UTC]

revdep-rebuild fails miserable when there are dependency loops. And there are many above/with gtk. Going with emerge --keep-going is a good idea in that case, going over the same packages multiple times if needs be.

Thanks

[Comment 4 Matt Savigear 2009-11-17 12:16:02 UTC]

Thanks Rémi - lafilefixer has done the job!